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Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.

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Food Security for Immigrant Families During COVID-19 Tweetchat
Food! Immigration

Bilingual #FoodFri: Food Security for Immigrant Families During COVID-19

03/31/21
On Friday, March 12th, we had an exciting bilingual #FoodFri Tweetchat about Food Security for Immigrant Families During COVID-19. Immigrants are an essential part of our country and workforce. We focused our discussion on what food assistance programs are available to immigrant and mixed-status...
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Hanna Addis
President Biden and Vice President Harris
Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

Thank leaders for passing the American Rescue Plan

03/17/21
MomsRising members made over 230,000 constituent contacts with members of Congress in support of this bill. Why? Because as we know the pandemic is having an outsized impact on women and moms, with women and moms of color experiencing compounded health and economic harms due to structural racism. And we know the American Rescue Plan will be a tremendous help and also a powerful step toward the transformational, permanent, and universal change we all need to lift our economy, our businesses, and our families.
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Taking Charge of Your Health: Health Info You Can Use
Food! Health Care

Taking Charge of Your Health: Health Info You Can Use

03/15/21
I love the saying, “good things come in small packages.” It’s true of so many things but especially Little Free Libraries. Little Free Libraries are popping up all over the place: in neighborhoods, at roadside farm stands, along busy greenways, and many other places. The concept is simple: You can...
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Katie Herndon
Health Care Politics & Policy

To Protect Kids, Eliminate All Flavored Tobacco Products

02/12/21
These are indeed challenging times while our nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic. But we can’t forget another public health crisis that long preceded this pandemic – tobacco use, which is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. We must continue the fight to protect kids and...
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Portia White
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Politics & Policy

SIGN NOW: Counselors not cops in schools!

02/01/21
There was yet another violent police attack on a child in school last week. We are once again enraged. *TAKE ACTION: Our schools need more counselors, nurses, social workers, and educators who have the training they need to effectively support students, NOT cops. Tell Congress to ACT NOW! [Content...
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Beatriz Beckford
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

Top #5Actions of the Past Week: Friday, December 4, 2020

12/04/20
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be an urgent crisis, yet many of the protections passed earlier this year are set to expire at the end of the month. We are calling on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass a relief package now that will benefit everyone in our nation. We also must urge Congress to...
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Sue Anne Reed

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Jeff Bezos and Amazon: what are you doing with our kids' data?

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7411/?source=action">Jeff Bezos and Amazon: what are you doing with our kids' data?</a>

Tell us what you're doing with data the new Echo for kids will gather from our children!

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Jeff Bezos and Amazon: what are you doing with our kids' data?

Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7332/?source=action">Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!</a>

ALL HANDS ON DECK: We need you to deliver a letter to your U.S. Representative's local office NOW to protect SNAP! Sign up here and we'll send you everything you need.

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Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

Help Us Make Healthy Food for Little Learners a Home Run!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7611/?source=action">Help Us Make Healthy Food for Little Learners a Home Run! </a>

Big news for our littlest learners! Healthy updates to meals and snacks offered in child and adult care centers will go into effect this fall. Help us hit this one out of the park -> send a message of support to providers working hard to make the new updates a big success!

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Help us make healthy food for our littlest learners a home run!

Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/12412/?source=action">Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!</a>

The Trump Administration's Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would make it legal for HHS-funded agencies and programs to discriminate against women, religious minorities, nonreligious people, and LGBTQ+ people. SIGN to oppose!

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QUICK SIGNATURE: NO taxpayer dollars for Trump's discrimination proposal!

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